Table 2 Spatial resolution limit.

From: Matrix Analysis of Warped Stretch Imaging

Element

Spatial resolution

Diffraction grating

w x

Dispersive fiber

\(|\frac{d{x}_{\omega }(\omega )}{d\omega }|\cdot \sqrt{\frac{4\pi }{|\tfrac{d{t}_{\omega }(\omega )}{d\omega }|}}\)

Electrical bandwidth

\(|\frac{d{x}_{\omega }(\omega )}{d\omega }|\cdot \frac{{\tau }_{FWHM}}{|\tfrac{d{t}_{\omega }(\omega )}{d\omega }|}\)

Sampling rate

\(|\frac{d{x}_{\omega }(\omega )}{d\omega }|\cdot \frac{1}{{f}_{dig}\cdot |\tfrac{d{t}_{\omega }(\omega )}{d\omega }|}\)